"It's not that my consciousness or my mind has given rise to some abnormality, but rather that some kind of incomprehensible power has caused the world around me to change."
-Book I, Chapter 9, Aomame, p. 106

"It could be that everything's decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that."
-Book I, Chapter 15, Aomame, p. 192

"Even if things were the same, people's perception o f them might have been very different back then. The darkness of the night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
-Book I, Chapter 17, Aomame, p. 214